Galatians Cross References - MNT

¹ Paul, an apostle sent not from men nor by any man, but by Jesus Christ and by God the Father who raised him from the dead; ² with all the brothers who are with me. To the churches of Galatia greeting. ³ Grace be to you, and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁴ who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil age in accordance with the will of our God and Father, ⁵ to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. ⁶ I am amazed that you are so soon shifting your ground, and deserting him who called you by the grace of Christ, ⁷ for another gospel, which indeed is not another; only there are certain individuals who are troubling you, and desiring to pervert the gospel of Christ. ⁸ But even though I myself or an angel from heaven were to preach any gospel other than that which I did preach to you, let him be accursed. ⁹ I have said it before, and I now repeat it, if any one is preaching a gospel to you other than that which you have received, let him be accursed. ¹⁰ Think you that I am now trying to conciliate men or God? Or am I "seeking to please men"? If I were still seeking to please men, I should not be a slave of Christ. ¹¹ For I would have you know, brothers, that the gospel I preach is not man-made; ¹² for neither did I myself receive it from man, nor by man was I taught it, but by a revelation an apocalypse of Jesus Christ. ¹³ For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how furiously I used to persecute the church of God, and how I kept seeking to root it out; ¹⁴ and how in my zeal for Judaism I outstripped many of my own age and nation, in my special zeal for the traditions of my forefathers. ¹⁵ But when God who had set me apart from my very birth, ¹⁶ and had called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me, so that I might preach his gospel among the Gentiles, without consulting a human being, ¹⁷ or even going up to Jerusalem to see those who had been apostles before me, I went off at once to Arabia, and on my return came back to Damascus. ¹⁸ Then three years later I went up to Jerusalem to get acquainted with Peter, and spent two weeks with him. ¹⁹ I saw no other apostle except James, the Lord's brother. ²⁰ (In what I am now writing, I call God to witness that I am telling the truth.) ²¹ Then I went into the districts of Syria and Cilicia. ²² But to the churches of Christ in Judea I was personally unknown; ²³ only they used to hear it said, "He who was once persecuting us is now preaching the gospel of the very faith which he once tried to ruin." ²⁴ And they were giving glory to God on my account.

⁹ "So pray in this way. "Our Father who art in heaven, May thy name be hallowed,

¹³ And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the Evil One; For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory. Amen.

⁸ But all the crowd were awestruck, and glorified God, who had given such power to men.

³ Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew, the tax-gatherer; James, the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname is Thaddeus;

²⁶ "Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in thy sight.

⁴⁶ While he was still talking to the crowd, his mother and brothers were standing outside, desiring to speak to him.

⁵⁵ "Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary? and his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?

² "Why do your disciples keep transgressing the tradition of the elders by not washing their hands before eating?" ³ "And why do you also keep transgressing the command of God by your tradition?" he asked.

⁶ is in no way bound to honor his father. Thus do you make void the word of God by your tradition!

¹⁷ "Blessed are you, Simon, Son of Jonah," said Jesus; "for flesh and blood have not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven!

²⁸ "just as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

¹⁶ So they sent their disciples to him, with the Herodians. "Teacher," they said, "we know that you are honest, and that you are teaching the way of God in sincerity; and are not afraid of any one, for you do not court men's favor.

²⁴ For false christs and false prophets will arise, and will work great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if it were possible, the very elect.

⁴¹ "Then he will say to those also at his left hand. 'Depart from me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels;

²⁸ "Drink from it, all of you; for this is my blood of the Covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

⁴¹ "Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." ⁴² Then he went away again a second time and prayed, saying, "O, my Father, if this cup cannot pass except I drink it, Thy will be done."

¹⁴ "If this should reach the Governor's ears," they said, "we will satisfy him and screen you from punishment."

¹⁸ And Jesus came forward to them and spoke to them, saying. "All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. ¹⁹ Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit; ²⁰ teaching them to observe every command which I have given you. and lo! I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world."

²⁰ teaching them to observe every command which I have given you. and lo! I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world."

¹⁸ and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the Zealot,

³ Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?"

⁶ And he wondered at their lack of faith. So he went among the neighboring villages, teaching.

³ For the Pharisees and all of the Jews do not eat until they have ceremoniously washed their hands in obedience to the tradition of the elders; ⁴ and when they come from the market-place they do not eat without bathing first. and they have many other customs which they have received and observe, such as the washing of cups and jugs and copper pans. ⁵ So the Pharisees and Scribes asked him. "Why do your disciples not follow the traditions of the elders? Why do they eat with 'common' unwashed hands?" ⁶ "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, hypocrites," he answered. "As it is written, 'This people honor me with their lips, While their hearts are far from me; ⁷ But in vain do they worship me, For their teaching is only human precepts.'" ⁸ "You neglect the commandment of God, and hold fast the traditions of men." ⁹ "It is praiseworthy, is it," he exclaimed, "to reject the command of God that you may keep your tradition! ¹⁰ For although Moses said, Honor your father and mother, and Let him who curses father or mother suffer death, ¹¹ you say that if a man tells his father or mother, 'This money which otherwise you would have received from me, is Korban' (that is, a thing devoted to God), ¹² you exempt him from doing any service for his father or mother. ¹³ Thus by your tradition which you have handed down you set at naught the word of God; and you do many other things like that."

⁴⁵ and justly, for even the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life, a ransom for many."

⁷¹ But he began with curses an solemn oaths to say, "I do not know the man you are talking about."

¹⁵ "For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, "He shall drink neither wine nor strong drink, "He shall be filled with the Holy Spirit from the hour of his birth, ¹⁶ "And shall win many of the sons of Israel to the Lord, their God.

¹⁴ "Glory to God in the highest, And in earth peace among men who please him"

¹⁵ Philip and Bartholomew; Mathew and Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon called the Zealot;

¹⁶ And awe took hold on them all, and they began to glorify God saying. "A great prophet has risen among us;" and, "God has visited his people."

²³ And he said to all. "If any man wills to follow me, Let him renounce self and take up his cross daily and follow me. ²⁴ "For whoever wills to save his life shall lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake shall save it. ²⁵ "For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?

⁵⁹ To another he said, "Follow me!" But he replied, "Permit me first to go and bury my father." ⁶⁰ "Leave the dead to bury their own dead," said Jesus to him, "go you and announce, far and wide the kingdom of God." ⁶¹ And another man also said to him. "I will follow you, Lord; but first permit me to bid farewell to those who are in my house." ⁶² But Jesus answered him, "No man who puts his hand to the plow and then looks back, is fit for the kingdom of God."

²¹ In the same hour he thrilled with joy in the Holy Ghost. "I praise thee, Father, Lord of Heaven and Earth," he said "for hiding these things from the wise and prudent, and for revealing them to babes. Yea, Father, for so it was well pleasing in thy sight!

¹⁰ "Even so I tell you there is joy in the presence of the angels for God over one sinner who repents."

³² "'But it was fitting that we should make merry and rejoice, for this brother of yours was dead and is alive; he was lost and is found.'"

¹⁹ And he took a loaf, and after giving thanks, he broke it and gave it to them saying. "This is my body, which is given for you; this do in remembrance of me.'

⁴² "Father, if thou art willing, take away this cup from me; but thy will, not mine, be done!"

¹⁹ So Jesus answered them in these words. "In solemn truth I tell that the Son cannot do anything of himself, except what he sees the Father doing; for whatever he does, that the Son does also.

³⁰ "I can of my own self do nothing. As I listen, I judge, and my own judgment is just, because I am not seeking my own will, but the will of Him who sent me.

³⁸ "For I am come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

³⁰ "This is truly astonishing," said the man in reply, "that you do not know where he is from, and yet he has opened my eyes.

¹¹ "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his very life for the sheep.

¹⁷ "The Father loves me for this, because I am laying down my life that I may take it again. ¹⁸ "No man is taking it away from me. I am laying it down on my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father."

³⁰ "I and my Father are one."

³¹ Now is a judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be driven out.

³⁰ "I shall not talk with you much more, for the Prince of this world is coming. ³¹ "He has nothing in me, but in his coming the world may know that I love the Father, and that I do just as the Father commanded. Rise, let us be going!"

¹⁸ "do not forget that it hated me first. ¹⁹ "If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, for that reason the world hates you.

¹⁴ I have given them thy word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. ¹⁵ I am not asking that thou wilt take them out of the world, but that thou wilt protect them from the Evil One.

²¹ Then Jesus said to them again. "Peace to you. As my Father has sent me forth, I also now am sending you."

¹³ On entering the city they went to the upper room where they were accustomed to meet. They were Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James, son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.

¹⁶ "Men and brothers, it was necessary for the Scripture to be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit uttered beforehand by the lips of David in regard to Judas who acted as guide to those who arrested Jesus. ¹⁷ "For he was numbered among us, and he did get his allotted share of this ministry. ¹⁸ "Now this man bought a plot of ground with the price of his treachery, and falling there headlong he burst asunder and all his bowels gushed out. ¹⁹ "This fact became known to the people of Jerusalem so that the place was called in their language, Acheldamach, The Field of Blood. ²⁰ "For it is written in the Book of Psalms, Let his dwelling-place be desolate; Let no man dwell there, also, Let another take his work. ²¹ "It is necessary then that, of the men who have been associated with us during the whole time in which the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, ²² from his baptism by John down to the day on which he was taken up from us, one should join us a witness to his resurrection." ²³ So they placed two in nomination, Joseph called Bar-Sabbas (surnamed Justas) and Matthias; ²⁴ and they prayed, saying. "Thou, O Lord, who knowest the hearts of all men, show clearly which of these two men thou hast chosen to fill the place ²⁵ "in this ministry of this apostles from which Judas went out to go to his own place." ²⁶ Then they cast lots for them, and the lot fell upon Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.

²⁴ but God has raised him to life, having loosed the pangs of death, because it was not possible for death to hold him. ²⁵ For David says of him. "I beheld the Lord always before my face; For he is at my right hand lest I be shaken. ²⁶ "Therefore my heart is glad, my tongue exults, my very body also shall pitch its tent in hope. ²⁷ "For thou wilt not leave my soul in Hades, Nor give up thy Holy One to see corruption. ²⁸ "Thou hast made known to me the paths of life, Thou wilt fill me with gladness in thy presence. ²⁹ "Men and brothers, I can speak plainly to you concerning the patriarch David, because he not only died and was buried, but his tomb is among us even to this very day. ³⁰ "Because he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn to him with an oath that of the fruit of his loins he would set one on his throne, ³¹ "he, foreseeing this, spoke of the resurrection of Christ that neither was he left in Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption. ³² This Jesus God has raised up, of this we are all witnesses.

¹⁵ "The Pioneer of Life you put to death. But God has raised him from the dead, and we are witnesses of that fact.

¹⁹ But Peter and John said in reply. "Do you decide whether in the sight of God it is right to obey you rather than God; ²⁰ but for our part, we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard."

²⁹ But Peter and the apostles said in reply.

⁷ And the word of the Lord continued to spread; and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem was increasing exceedingly, and a large number of priests became obedient to the faith.

⁹ But certain men from the so-called "Synagogue of the Freedmen" and certain Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, Cilicians, and men from Roman Asia, started to dispute with Stephen,

¹ With these words he fell asleep. And Saul fully approved of his murder. On this very day there broke out a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostle were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.

³ But Saul was laying waste the church. He was wont to enter into every house, and to drag off men and women, and to commit them to prison.

¹ Meanwhile Saul, still breathing out threats of murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest ² and begged of him letters addressed to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any that were of the Way, either men or women, he could bind them and bring them to Jerusalem.

⁶ "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting," he said: "Stand up and go into the city, and there you shall be told what you must do."

¹³ "But, Lord," said Ananias, "I have heard from many about that man, and how much evil he did to the saints at Jerusalem!

¹³ "But, Lord," said Ananias, "I have heard from many about that man, and how much evil he did to the saints at Jerusalem! ¹⁴ "In this city, too, he has authority from the chief priests to arrest all those who call upon thy name." ¹⁵ "Go," answered the Lord, "this man is chosen instrument of mine to bear my name before the nations and their kings, and before the Children of Israel also;

¹⁵ "Go," answered the Lord, "this man is chosen instrument of mine to bear my name before the nations and their kings, and before the Children of Israel also; ¹⁶ "for I am going to show him all he has to suffer for the sake of my name."

²⁰ And he began at once to proclaim in the synagogues Jesus as the Son of God.

²⁰ And he began at once to proclaim in the synagogues Jesus as the Son of God. ²¹ His hearers were all astonished, and began to say. "Is not this the very man who in Jerusalem made havoc of those who called upon the Name? Did he not come hither for the express purpose of carrying them all in chains to the high priests?"

²¹ His hearers were all astonished, and began to say. "Is not this the very man who in Jerusalem made havoc of those who called upon the Name? Did he not come hither for the express purpose of carrying them all in chains to the high priests?" ²² But Saul gained more and more influence, and kept putting the Jews who lived in Damascus to confusion by his proof that Jesus was the Christ.

²² But Saul gained more and more influence, and kept putting the Jews who lived in Damascus to confusion by his proof that Jesus was the Christ. ²³ And when many days were fulfilled the Jews made a plot to kill Saul;

²³ And when many days were fulfilled the Jews made a plot to kill Saul; ²⁴ but information of their plot was given Saul, and although they kept watch day and night on the gates, in order to make away with him, ²⁵ his disciples took him by night, and let him down over the wall, lowering him in a basket. ²⁶ So he came to Jerusalem, and attempted to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, because they did not believe that he was a disciple.

²⁶ So he came to Jerusalem, and attempted to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, because they did not believe that he was a disciple. ²⁷ But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles, and told them how Saul had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him; and also how he had preached the Name of the Lord Jesus boldly at Damascus. ²⁸ Henceforth Saul was one of them, going in and out of the city, and speaking fearlessly in the Name of the Lord. ²⁹ He also used to hold conversations and debates with the Grecian Jews, but they kept trying to kill him. ³⁰ When they learned this the brothers took him down to Caesarea, and then sent him forth to Tarsus. ³¹ Now throughout the whole of Judea, Galilee, and Samaria the Church continued to enjoy peace and to be spiritually built up. It was increasing in members also, as it kept walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

¹⁸ On hearing this they held their peace and glorified God, saying, "Forsooth then, to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance unto life."

²⁵ Then Barnabas visited Tarsus, to try to find Saul, ²⁶ and when he had found him he brought him to Antioch, where for a whole year they were guests of the church, and taught many people. And it was in Antioch that the disciples first received the name of "Christians."

¹⁷ He motioned to them to keep quiet, and told them how the Lord had brought him out of prison. "Tell all this to James," he said, "and to the brothers," and away he went to another place.

²⁰ Now Herod was violently displeased with the people of Tyre and Sidon. So they came to him, with one accord, and after conciliating Blastus, the royal chamberlain, they begged for peace because their country depended upon the king's country for its food supply.

¹ Now there were in the church in Antioch prophets and teachers; Barnabas and Symeon, surnamed "the Black," Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen, the foster-brother of Herod the Tetrarch, and Saul. ² And as they were worshiping the Lord, and fasting, the Holy Spirit said to them, "Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them."

² And as they were worshiping the Lord, and fasting, the Holy Spirit said to them, "Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them." ³ So after fasting and praying, they laid their hands on them, and let them go. ⁴ So they, sent forth by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.

¹⁰ "O full of all craft and cunning, you son of the devil! You enemy of all goodness! Will you never stop perverting the right ways of the Lord?

¹ But some men came down from Judea and attempted to teach the brethren, saying, "Unless you are circumcised according to Moses' custom, you cannot be saved." ² Now when dispute and controversy sprang up between them and Paul and Barnabas, the brethren appointed Paul and Barnabas, and certain others, to go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and elders about this question. ³ So the church saw them off on their journey, and they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria. Here they set forth the conversion of the Gentiles, and brought great joy to all the brothers. ⁴ Upon their arrival in Jerusalem they were received by the church and the apostles and elders, and they told them all things that God had done with them. ⁵ But certain men who had belonged to the sect of the Pharisees, but were now believers, stood up and said, "It is necessary to circumcise Gentile, and to order them to keep the Law of Moses."

¹¹ "On the contrary we believe that it is by the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ that we and they shall be saved."

²³ They took with them the following letter. "The apostles and older brothers send greeting to the Gentile Brotherhood throughout Antioch and Syria and Cilicia; ²⁴ "as we have heard that some of your number who went out from us have troubled you with words and upset your souls, without having received any such instruction from us;

⁴¹ He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.

⁵ So the churches were strengthened in the faith and continued to increase in number daily. ⁶ Then they went through Phrygia and Galatia, the Holy Spirit having forbidden them to proclaim the message in Asia.

¹⁸ And Paul after remaining in Corinth some time longer, took leave of the brothers, and sailed away to Syria, accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila. As Paul was under a vow, he had his head shaved at Cenchrea.

²³ After spending some time there, he set out and went through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, in order, and strengthened all the disciples.

³⁰ and that from among your own number, men will arise, perverting the truth, to draw away the disciples after them.

³ After sighting Cyprus and leaving it on the left hand, we sailed for Syria, and put in at Tyre; for there the ship was to unload her cargo.

¹⁹ After saluting them Paul rehearsed, one by one, the things that God had done among the Gentiles by his ministry. ²⁰ And they, when they heard it, glorified God, and said to him. "You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews, of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the Law.

³⁹ "I am a Jew," answered Paul, "a native of Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city. And I pray you, give me permission to speak to the people."

³ "I am a Jew," he said, "born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the strict manner of the Law of our forefathers, ardent for God, even as you all are this day.

³ "I am a Jew," he said, "born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the strict manner of the Law of our forefathers, ardent for God, even as you all are this day. ⁴ "I persecuted to the death this way, continually binding and delivering up to prisons both men and women. ⁵ "To this the high priest and all the council of elders are witnesses. It was from them that I received letters to the brothers in Damascus, and I was already on my way to bring those also who were there back to Jerusalem, in bonds, for punishment.

¹⁰ "And I said, 'What shall I do, Lord?' and the Lord said to me, 'Rise and go into Damascus, and there you will be told about all that you are destined to do.'

¹⁴ "Then he said: "'The God of our forefathers has appointed you to know his will; and to see the righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.

¹⁴ "Then he said: "'The God of our forefathers has appointed you to know his will; and to see the righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth. ¹⁵ "'For before the face of all men you will be a witness for him of what you have seen and heard.

¹⁵ "'For before the face of all men you will be a witness for him of what you have seen and heard. ¹⁶ "'And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling upon his name.' ¹⁷ "After my return to Jerusalem, and while I was praying in the temple,

¹⁷ "After my return to Jerusalem, and while I was praying in the temple, ¹⁸ "I fell into a trance and saw him saying to me, "'Make haste and go quickly out of Jerusalem, because they will not receive your testimony concerning me.'

¹⁸ "I fell into a trance and saw him saying to me, "'Make haste and go quickly out of Jerusalem, because they will not receive your testimony concerning me.' ¹⁹ "'Lord,' I replied, 'they themselves well know that I was beating and imprisoning in synagogue after synagogue those who believed in you, ²⁰ "'and when the blood of your martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by and consenting, and holding the garments of his murders.' ²¹ "'Depart,' he said to me, 'for I will send you forth, far hence, to the Gentiles.'"

²¹ "'Depart,' he said to me, 'for I will send you forth, far hence, to the Gentiles.'"

¹⁴ They went to the high priests and elders, and said to them. "We have bound ourselves by a solemn oath to eat nothing until we have killed Paul.

³⁴ After reading the letter, he asked to what province he belonged, and when he understood that he was of Cilicia, he said,

⁴ "The kind of life I have lived from my youth upward among my own nation and at Jerusalem, all that early life of mine, is well known to all the Jews. ⁵ "They know me of old, if they are willing to testify, how that according to the strict sect of our religion, I lived a Pharisee.

⁵ "They know me of old, if they are willing to testify, how that according to the strict sect of our religion, I lived a Pharisee.

⁹ "I indeed once thought with myself that I ought to do many things against the name of Jesus, the Nazarene.

⁹ "I indeed once thought with myself that I ought to do many things against the name of Jesus, the Nazarene. ¹⁰ "And this also I did in Jerusalem. Armed with authority from the chief priests, I shut up many of the saints in prison, and when they were condemned to death I gave my vote against them. ¹¹ "In all the synagogues also I punished them oftentimes, and tried to make them blaspheme; and in my mad fury I was pursuing them even to foreign cities.

¹⁶ "'But rise and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you in order to appoint you my minister and my witness both of what you have already seen and of those things in which I will appear to you. ¹⁷ "'I will deliver you from the Jewish people, and from the Gentiles to whom I am sending you to open their eyes

¹⁷ "'I will deliver you from the Jewish people, and from the Gentiles to whom I am sending you to open their eyes ¹⁸ "'so that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, in order to receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'

¹⁸ "'so that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, in order to receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.' ¹⁹ "So then, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision; ²⁰ "but I proceeded to preach, first to those in Damascus, and then in Jerusalem and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they must repent and turn to God and do deeds worthy of repentance.

¹ From Paul, a slave of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for a gospel of God,

⁴ but was by his resurrection from the dead instated as Son of God, with power, in respect of his spirit of holiness. ⁵ It is through him, even Jesus Christ our Lord, that I received grace and apostleship to promote obedience to the faith among all the Gentiles, for his name's sake;

⁵ It is through him, even Jesus Christ our Lord, that I received grace and apostleship to promote obedience to the faith among all the Gentiles, for his name's sake;

⁷ To all that are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints. May God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ, bless you, and give you peace.

⁷ To all that are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints. May God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ, bless you, and give you peace. ⁸ First I thank my God, through Jesus Christ, for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed throughout all the world. ⁹ God is my witness, to whom I render holy service in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how unceasingly I am ever making mention of you in my prayers, ¹⁰ always entreating him that now at length, if such be his will, the way may be made clear for me to come to you. ¹¹ For I am longing so to see you, in order to impart to you some spiritual gift, so that you may be established; ¹² that is, that I with you may be encouraged by you, each of us by the other's faith, yours and mine. ¹³ I want you to know, brothers, that many a time I have planned to come to you—though until now I have been hindered—so as to have some harvest-fruit among you also, even as I have among the rest of the Gentiles.

¹³ I want you to know, brothers, that many a time I have planned to come to you—though until now I have been hindered—so as to have some harvest-fruit among you also, even as I have among the rest of the Gentiles. ¹⁴ To Greeks and to barbarians, to the cultured and to the uncultured, I have a debt to discharge.

¹⁴ To Greeks and to barbarians, to the cultured and to the uncultured, I have a debt to discharge. ¹⁵ So much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.

⁸ but anger and wrath upon those who are self-willed and disobey the truth, but obey unrighteousness.

¹⁶ in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.

²⁹ but the real Jew is one inwardly, and real circumcision is heart—circumcision, spiritual, not literal, praised not by men, but by God.

²⁴ For it will be "reckoned for righteousness." to us also, who believe on him that raised from the dead our Lord Jesus; ²⁵ who was betrayed to death for our transgressions, and raised again to life for our justification.

²⁵ who was betrayed to death for our transgressions, and raised again to life for our justification.

² Through him also we have had our access into this grace in which we have taken our stand, and are exulting in hope of the glory of God.

³ For God has done what the Law could not do, weakened as it was by flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and on account of sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

²⁷ And the Searcher of Hearts knows what the Sprit's meaning is, because his intercessions for the saints are according to the will of God.

³⁰ and whom he foreordained, those he also called; and whom he called, those he also justified; and whom he justified, those he also glorified.

³² He that spared not his own Son, But freely delivered him up for us all, How shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

¹ I am speaking the truth in Christ, it is no lie. My conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit that I have deep sorrow

³ For I was on the point of praying to be accursed from Christ on behalf of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.

²⁴ Now such are we whom he has called, not only from among the Jews, but also from among the Gentiles.

³ For because they were ignorant of God's righteousness, and sought to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit themselves to the righteousness of God.

⁹ Confess with your mouth "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God actually raised him from the dead, and you will be saved.

¹³ For to you who are Gentiles I say that since I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I glorify my ministry,

³⁶ For of him and through him, and for him, are all things. All glory to him forever and ever! Amen.

² And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

⁹ For this purpose Christ died and became alive again, that he might be the Lord both of the dead and of the living.

¹ Now we who are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to seek our own pleasure. ² Let each one of us try to make his neighbor happy for his good, unto his upbuilding.

¹⁶ I act as priest of the gospel of God; so that the Gentiles, when offered before him, may be an acceptable sacrifice, because consecrated by the Holy Spirit. ¹⁷ I have then my boast in Christ Jesus concerning the things of God. ¹⁸ For I will not dare to speak of any thing except that which Christ has done through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience by word and deed, ¹⁹ through the might of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit. So that beginning at Jerusalem and its environs, I have proclaimed without reserve the gospel of Christ, even as far as Illyricum.

⁷ and Andronicus and Junia, my kinsfolk and fellow prisoners, who are notable among the apostles, and who became Christians before I did.

¹⁷ I exhort you, brothers, to keep watch of those who are causing the divisions among you, and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the teaching which you have learned.

¹⁷ I exhort you, brothers, to keep watch of those who are causing the divisions among you, and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the teaching which you have learned. ¹⁸ Turn away from them. For men of that stamp are not the slaves of Christ, but are slaves to their own appetites. By their smooth and fair speech they beguile the hearts of the innocent.

²⁷ Unto Him, the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, be glory forever. Amen.

¹ Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Jesus Christ, and Sosthenes, his brother.

³ Grace to you, and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹ Faithful is the God by whom you were called into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

²⁴ but to those who are the called, whether Jews or Greeks, Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God.

³⁰ It is of him that you are in Christ Jesus, whom God made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

⁹ Nay, as it is written. Eye has not seen, Nor ear heard, Neither have entered into man's heart The things which God has prepared For those who love him.

⁹ Nay, as it is written. Eye has not seen, Nor ear heard, Neither have entered into man's heart The things which God has prepared For those who love him. ¹⁰ Yet God has unveiled them to us by his Spirit. For the Spirit fathoms everything, even the abysmal depths of God.

¹⁰ Yet God has unveiled them to us by his Spirit. For the Spirit fathoms everything, even the abysmal depths of God.

¹⁰ Yet God has unveiled them to us by his Spirit. For the Spirit fathoms everything, even the abysmal depths of God. ¹¹ For what man knows the depths of man except the man's own inner Spirit? Even so, also, the Spirit of God knows the deeps profound of God. ¹² But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which comes forth from God, that we may realize the blessings freely given us by God. ¹³ Of these high themes we speak in words not taught by human philosophy, but by the Spirit; interpreting spiritual things to spiritual men.

¹⁵ For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ Jesus, you can have but one father. For in Christ Jesus I begot you through the gospel.

⁵ Have I no right to take a believing wife with me on my journey, as the rest of the apostles and the Lord's brothers and Peter do?

³³ For so I also try to please all men in every way, not by seeking my own good, but the good of the many, that they may be saved.

²³ For I passed on to you the account, which I myself received from the Lord; how the Lord Jesus, on the very night he was betrayed, took bread,

³ Wherefore I want you to understand that no one who speaks in the Spirit of God says, "Jesus is accursed," and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except in the Holy Spirit.

¹ Now I am calling to your remembrance, brothers, the gospel which I preached to you, which you also received, and on which you have taken your stand, ² by which also you are saved, if you are holding fast the message which I preached to you; unless indeed you have believed in vain. ³ For the very first thing I taught you was that I had myself been taught, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scripture,

⁸ and last of all, as by one born out of due time, he was seen by me also. ⁹ For I am the least of the apostles, I who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

⁹ For I am the least of the apostles, I who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. ¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am, and that grace of his, bestowed upon me, did not prove ineffectual. I labored more abundantly than all the rest, yet not I, but by the grace of God that is with me.

¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am, and that grace of his, bestowed upon me, did not prove ineffectual. I labored more abundantly than all the rest, yet not I, but by the grace of God that is with me.

⁵⁰ I tell you this, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor can corruption inherit incorruption.

¹ Now concerning the offering for the saints, you also are to do as I directed the church of Galatia.

²² If any one does not love the Lord, let him be accursed. Our Lord is coming.

¹ To the Church of God which is in Corinth, and to all the saints throughout Greece. from Paul, by God's will an apostle of Christ, and from brother Timothy. ² Grace to you and peace from God our Father in the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁷ In purposing this did I display "caprice"? Or what I purpose do I purpose in a worldly way, so that it may mean either "Yes, yes," or "No, no"?

¹⁷ I am; for I am not like most, trafficking in the word of God, but rather from a sincere heart, like a man of God, I speak in Christ, in the very presence of God.

¹ Am I beginning again to "recommend" myself? Or do I need, as some do, letters of commendation either to you or from you? ² You are my letter, written on my heart, known and read by all men. ³ Since all can see that you are a letter of Christ transcribed by men, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone, but on human hearts as tablets.

² I have renounced the hidden things of shame, not spending my life in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God; but setting forth the truth openly, I strive to commend myself to every man's conscience as in the sight of God.

⁴ Among them the god of this age has blinded the understanding of the unbelieving so that the sunshine of the gospel of God, should not dawn upon them.

⁶ For God who said, "Out of darkness light shall shine," is he who has shone in my heart, that the sunrise of the knowledge of God may shine forth in the face of Christ.

⁹ And for this reason I also make it home with the Lord. ¹⁰ For we must all be made manifest, in our true characters, before the Judgment-seat of Christ; so that each one may receive according to that which he has done in his body, whether good or evil. ¹¹ So, because I know the fear of God, I "persuade men." What I am is manifest to God, and I hope manifest also to your conscience.

¹⁶ Therefore henceforth I know no one simply as a man—even if I have known Christ as a man, yet now I do so no longer.

¹³ For this ministration proves you. On account of it men glorify God for your faithfulness to your professions of the gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of your gifts to them and to all.

⁴ If indeed some one is coming to preach another Jesus, whom I did not preach, or you are receiving a Spirit other than you once received, or another gospel which you did not accept before, you would do well to bear with me.

¹⁰ As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine shall not be stopped within the boundaries of Greece! ¹¹ And why? Because I love you not? God knows I do.

¹³ For such fellows are sham apostles of Christ.

¹³ For such fellows are sham apostles of Christ. ¹⁴ No wonder! for Satan himself disguises himself as an angel of light.

³¹ The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed forever, knows that I am telling the truth. ³² In Damascus, the governor under Aretas the King, kept guard over the city of the Damascus, to arrest me; ³³ but through an opening in the wall I was let down in a basket, and so escaped and out of his hands.

¹ I am forced to boast, though it is unprofitable, but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.

¹⁹ Do you think that all this time I am defending myself to you? It is before the presence of God that I am speaking in Christ; and all, beloved, for your upbuilding.

¹ This will be my third visit to you. Out of the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be confirmed. ² I have said formerly, and I now forewarn you as when I was present the second time, so now when I am absent the second time, so now when I am absent, saying to those who had sinned before, and to all the rest, "If I come again, I will not spare,"

¹⁴ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

¹ Paul, an apostle sent not from men nor by any man, but by Jesus Christ and by God the Father who raised him from the dead;

⁶ I am amazed that you are so soon shifting your ground, and deserting him who called you by the grace of Christ,

⁹ I have said it before, and I now repeat it, if any one is preaching a gospel to you other than that which you have received, let him be accursed.

¹¹ For I would have you know, brothers, that the gospel I preach is not man-made; ¹² for neither did I myself receive it from man, nor by man was I taught it, but by a revelation an apocalypse of Jesus Christ.

¹⁶ and had called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me, so that I might preach his gospel among the Gentiles, without consulting a human being, ¹⁷ or even going up to Jerusalem to see those who had been apostles before me, I went off at once to Arabia, and on my return came back to Damascus. ¹⁸ Then three years later I went up to Jerusalem to get acquainted with Peter, and spent two weeks with him.

¹ Fourteen years later I went up to Jerusalem again, with Barnabas, and took Titus also with me

⁴ Yet there were false brethren who had crept in to spy out the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us again.

⁶ But those in authority—what they once were makes no difference to me; God is no respecter of persons—those I say who were in authority had no additions to make my message. ⁷ On the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel for the uncircumcised, just as Peter has with the gospel for the circumcised ⁸ (for he who has equipped Peter for the apostleship to the circumcised, equipped me also for the apostleship to the Gentiles), ⁹ and when they recognized the grace which had been given to me, James and Cephas and John, then thought to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and to me the right hand of fellowship. They agreed that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the Jews.

²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ, so it is no longer I who am living, but it is Christ who is living in me; and the life I am now living in the flesh, I am living in faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.

¹ O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you? You, before whose very eyes Jesus Christ was placarded as crucified! ² Answer me this one question. "When you received the Spirit, was it from doing what the Law commands or from believing the message heard?" ³ Are you so without sense? After beginning with the Spirit, will you now end with the flesh? ⁴ Did you have such experience to no purpose—if indeed it was really to no purpose? ⁵ Does he then who supplies you with his Spirit and works miracles among you, do it because you do what the law commands of because you believe the message heard?

¹⁰ but a curse rests on those who have their root in the works of the Law; for it is written. Cursed is every one that continues not in all the things written in the Book of the Law, to do them.

¹³ Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse for us (for it is written, Cursed is every one who is hanged upon a tree),

⁹ Now, however, when you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you are beginning to turn back to those weak and beggarly externalities, eager to be in bondage to them again? ¹⁰ You are scrupulous, are you, in observing "days" and "months" and "seasons" and "years"? ¹¹ I am alarmed about you for fear lest I may have bestowed labor on you to no purpose. ¹² Brothers, I beseech you, become as I am, because I also have become as you are. You never did me any wrong; ¹³ on the contrary, you know that although it was illness which brought about my preaching the gospel to you at my first visit, ¹⁴ and although my bodily affliction was a trial to you, you did not scoff at it nor spurn me, but welcomed me like an angel of God, like Christ Jesus himself. ¹⁵ Why then did you account yourselves so happy? (For I bear you witness that if you could you would have torn out your own eyes and given them to me.)

¹⁷ These men are courting your favor to no good purpose. They want to isolate you, so that you will be courting their favor.

⁴ If you are being justified by law, you are cut off from Christ; you are fallen away from grace.

⁷ You were running your race nobly. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? ⁸ The influence brought to bear does not come from him who is calling you.

¹⁰ As for me, I am fully trusting you in the Lord that you will be no otherwise minded; but he who is trying to unsettle you will have to bear his punishment, whoever he may be.

¹² Would to God that those who are trying to unsettle you would even have themselves mutilated.

¹² Those who are trying to compel you to be circumcised are such as wish to make a fair show in the flesh, only that they may not suffer persecution for the cross of Christ. ¹³ Even those who are being circumcised, are not themselves keeping the Law, but they want you to be circumcised so that they may glory in your flesh. ¹⁴ God forbid that I should glory in anything except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, upon which the world has been crucified to me and I have been crucified to the world.

¹⁷ From this time forth let no one trouble me, for I bear branded in my body the marks of Jesus, my Master.

² grace to you and peace from God our father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

² grace to you and peace from God our father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ.

⁵ For in his love he predestined us (such was the good pleasure of his will) to adoption for himself as sons through Jesus Christ,

⁹ when he made known to us, I say, that good pleasure which he purposed in himself

¹¹ It is he in whom we Jews also have our inheritance, having been chosen beforehand according to the purpose of Him who executes all things according to the counsel of his will, ¹² that we who first hoped in Christ should be for the praise of his glory.

¹⁷ I am praying that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father most glorious, may grant you a spirit of wisdom and revelation, through an intimate knowledge of himself; ¹⁸ and that the eyes of your heart may be flooded with light so that you may understand what is the hope of his calling, what the wealth of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, ¹⁹ and what the surpassing greatness of his might in us who believe, as seen in the energy of that resistless might ²⁰ which he exercised in raising Christ from the dead, and in seating him at his right hand in the heavenly heights,

² in which you passed your lives after the way of this world, under the sway of the Prince of the Powers of the Air, the spirit who is now working among the sons of disobedience.

¹ For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles—

³ You have heard how by direct revelation the secret truth was made known to me, as I have already briefly written you. ⁴ By reading what I have written, you can judge of my insight into that secret truth of Christ ⁵ which was not disclosed to the sons of men in former generations, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets,

⁵ which was not disclosed to the sons of men in former generations, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets, ⁶ namely, that in Christ Jesus the Gentiles form one body with us the Jews, and are coheirs and copartners in the promise, through the gospel.

⁶ namely, that in Christ Jesus the Gentiles form one body with us the Jews, and are coheirs and copartners in the promise, through the gospel. ⁷ It is of this gospel I became a minister according to the gift of the power of the grace of God, bestowed on me by the energy of his power.

⁷ It is of this gospel I became a minister according to the gift of the power of the grace of God, bestowed on me by the energy of his power. ⁸ To me, who am less than the least of all saints, has this grace been given, that I should proclaim among the Gentiles the gospel of the unsearchable riches of Christ;

⁸ To me, who am less than the least of all saints, has this grace been given, that I should proclaim among the Gentiles the gospel of the unsearchable riches of Christ;

⁸ To me, who am less than the least of all saints, has this grace been given, that I should proclaim among the Gentiles the gospel of the unsearchable riches of Christ; ⁹ and should make all men see the new dispensation of that secret purpose, hidden from eternity in the God who founded the universe, ¹⁰ in order that now his manifold wisdom should, through the church, be made known to the principalities and powers in the heavenly sphere, ¹¹ according to his eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord.

² and to lead lives of love, just as Christ also loved you and gave himself up for you, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for you, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for "an odor of sweetness."

⁶ not with eye service, as men-pleasers, but as the slaves of Christ, doing the will of God;

¹² For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the despotisms, the empires, the rulers of this present darkness, the spirit-hosts of evil in the heavenly realm.

¹ Paul and Timothy, slaves of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, and to the elders and deacons. ² Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

²² And you know Timothy's worth, how he has shared my servitude in furtherance of the gospel, like a son helping his father.

¹ Finally, my brothers, continue to rejoice in the Lord. To write the same thing is not indeed wearisome to me, and it is safe for you.

⁴ although I myself might have confidence in outward rites. If any one else claims a right to trust in them, far more may I; ⁵ circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew sprung from the Hebrews; as to the Law, a Pharisee; ⁶ as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to the righteousness which comes through law, blameless.

⁶ as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to the righteousness which comes through law, blameless.

⁴ Rejoice in the Lord alway, and again will I say, rejoice!

²⁰ Now unto our God and Father be the glory, forever and ever. Amen. ²¹ Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me salute you.

² to the holy and believing brothers in Christ who are in Colosse. Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father. ³ Whenever I pray for you I am continually thanking God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ ⁴ (since I heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and your love to all the saints)

²⁵ It is of this I was made a minister, according to the stewardship entrusted to me by God for you, fully to declare God's message; ²⁶ that secret truth, which, although hidden from ages and generations of old, has now been made manifest to his saints. ²⁷ To them God willed to make known among the Gentiles how glorious are the riches of that secret truth, which is "Christ in you, the hope of glory."

⁸ Take care lest any man drag you away captive by his philosophy which is a vain deceit, following the traditions of men and the world's crude notions, and not Christ.

²² Slaves, obey in all things your earthly masters, not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of purpose, out of reverence for your Lord.

¹ Paul and Silas and Timothy. To the church of the Thessalonians which is in God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be to you, and peace.

⁴ But as my fitness to be entrusted with the gospel has been tested and approved by God, I so speak, not to please men, but to please God, who is testing my motives.

¹⁴ For you, brothers, began to follow the example of the churches of God in Judea, which are in Christ Jesus; and you in your turn suffered at the hands of your fellow citizens persecutions like to those which they endured from the Jews—

¹⁶ They forbid me to speak to the Gentiles with a view to their salvation. They continue always to fill up the measure of their sins; but the wrath of God is come upon them to the full!

¹¹ Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct my path to you.

¹³ And so may he establish your hearts unblameable in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus, with all his saints.

¹ Paul and Silvanus and Timothy. To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ² Grace to you, and peace from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁰ when he comes to be glorified in his saints, and to be wondered at in all believers, on that Day; (for you also believed our testimony).

¹² so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in him, according to the grace of our God and of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹³ But for you, brothers, whom the Lord loves, I ought to give thanks to God continually, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation in consecration of the Spirit and belief of the truth. ¹⁴ For this he called you through my gospel, so that you might obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁴ For this he called you through my gospel, so that you might obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁶ And may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal encouragement and a good hope in grace,

³ As I begged you when I was setting out for Macedonia, stay where you are at Ephesus, and instruct certain individuals there not to be teaching heterodoxy,

¹¹ as laid down in the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which has been entrusted to me. ¹² And I am thankful to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has thus enabled me, that he accounted me faithful, and appointed me to his service, ¹³ although I had formerly been a blasphemer and a persecutor and a doer of outrage. But I obtained mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief.

¹³ although I had formerly been a blasphemer and a persecutor and a doer of outrage. But I obtained mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief.

¹³ although I had formerly been a blasphemer and a persecutor and a doer of outrage. But I obtained mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief. ¹⁴ And the grace of our Lord overflowed with faith and love that is in Christ Jesus.

¹⁴ And the grace of our Lord overflowed with faith and love that is in Christ Jesus.

¹⁴ And the grace of our Lord overflowed with faith and love that is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that "Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners"! And there is no greater sinner than I! ¹⁶ Yet for this very cause I obtained mercy, so that in me, the chief of sinners, Jesus Christ might display all his boundless patience as an illustration for those who should later believe in him, and so gain life eternal. ¹⁷ Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be glory and honor forever and ever. Amen!

¹⁹ keeping fast hold of faith and a good conscience; which certain individuals have cast aside, and so made shipwreck of their faith. ²⁰ Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have given over to Satan, so that they may be taught not to blaspheme.

⁶ who gave himself as a ransom in behalf of all, to be attested in due time. ⁷ It was for this testimony that I myself was appointed a herald and apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), to be a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

¹ Now the Spirit distinctly declares that in latter days there will be some who will fall away from the faith, by listening to spirits of error, and to teachings of demons ² speaking lies in hypocrisy. These are men whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron, ³ who discourage marriage, and enjoin abstinence from foods which God created to be received with thankfulness, by those who believe, and have a clear knowledge of the truth.

¹ Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus, by the will of God, sent forth to proclaim the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus.

⁹ He has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not dealing with us according to our works, but according to his purpose and grace which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time.

¹¹ Of the gospel I was appointed a herald, apostle, and teacher; and that is the reason I am now undergoing these sufferings.

¹ Do you then, my son, strengthen you heart in the grace which is in Christ Jesus.

¹⁸ Among such are Hymenaeus and Philetus, who have gone astray concerning the truth by declaring that the resurrection is already past; and they are undermining the faith of some.

⁸ As Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so also do these men withstand the truth; being corrupt in mind and worthless in all that concerns the faith. ⁹ But they will not get on; for their folly will be made as openly manifest to all as was that of Jannes and Jambres.

³ For a time will come when they will not listen to wholesome teaching, but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will heap up for themselves teachers upon teachers to satisfy their own fancies. ⁴ They will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside to myths.

¹⁸ And the Lord will rescue me from every evil assault, and will preserve me for his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever! Amen!

³ but manifested in his own time; that word of his in proclaiming which I have been entrusted by command of God our Saviour.

¹⁰ For there are many individuals who are unruly, empty talkers and deceivers, particularly those of the circumcision, whose mouths must be stopped; ¹¹ for they upset whole households and, for filthy lucre's sake, teach what they ought not to teach.

¹⁴ He gave himself for us to redeem us from all iniquity, and to purify unto himself a people zealous of good works."

¹⁰ After a first and second admonition, refuse a man who is causing divisions;

⁵ It is not to angels that God subjected the age to be, of which we are speaking.

¹⁴ Therefore, since the children are sharers in flesh and blood, he also similarly partook of the same, in order that through death he might render powerless him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

⁵ and become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the Future Age,

¹⁴ how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through his eternal spirit offered himself free from blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works unto the service of an ever-living God!

⁴ For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sin. ⁵ It is for this reason that the Christ, on coming into the world, declared. Sacrifice and offerings thou dost not desire, But a body didst thou prepare for me; ⁶ In whole burnt offerings and sin offerings Thou hast taken no pleasure. ⁷ Then I said, "I am come—in the roll of the book it is written of me—To do thy will, O God." ⁸ First when it is said, Thou hast no longing for, thou takest no delight in Sacrifices and offerings, or whole burnt offerings and sin offerings, ⁹ (offerings regularly made under the law), and then it is added, Lo, I come to do thy will, he does away with the first, in order that he may establish the second. ¹⁰ And it is by this will that we have been sanctified by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

²⁰ Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of an eternal covenant, ²¹ equip you in every good deed for the doing of his will, doing in you what is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory unto the ages of the ages! Amen!

¹ James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sends greeting to the twelve tribes that are scattered abroad.

⁴ You adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity to God? Whoever, then, desires to be a friend of the world, makes himself and enemy of God.

⁸ Him you love, though you have never seen him; in him you ever believe, though even now you see him not, and you are rejoicing with joy unspeakable and full of glory,

¹⁵ but become yourselves holy in your whole manner of living, as He who has called you is holy,

²¹ Through him you believe in God who raised him from the dead and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope are now in God.

²⁴ He bore our sins in his own body upon the tree, in order that we might become dead to sins, and be alive unto righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

¹⁸ because Christ also once for all suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but make alive in spirit.

¹⁰ But the God of all grace, who has called us by Christ Jesus to share his eternal glory, will, after you have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. ¹¹ His is the dominion forever and ever; Amen.

³ For his power divine has granted to us everything needful for life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue.

¹ But there were false prophets, too, among the people, just as among you also there will be false teachers. These will secretly bring in destructive sects, denying even the Master who bought them, and bringing swift ruin upon themselves. ² Then there will be many who will follow their immorality, because of whom the Way of the Truth will be maligned. ³ In their covetousness, with cunning words, they will make merchandise of you; those whose doom has not been idle from of old, and whose destruction has not been slumbering.

¹⁴ They have eyes full of harlots, eyes that cannot stop sinning. They entice unsteady souls. Their heart is trained in greed. They are an accursed generation.

¹⁸ But grow continually in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and unto the Day of Eternity, Amen.

² And he is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.

¹⁵ Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶ For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the proud glory of life, is not from the Father, but from the world; ¹⁷ and the world and its lusts are passing away, but he who ever does the will of God abides forever. ¹⁸ My children, this is the last hour, and as you have heard that an antichrist was coming, and now many antichrists are already risen, whence we may know that it is the last hour. ¹⁹ They came forth from us, but they did not belong to us. If they had belonged to us they would certainly have remained with us, but they went out that they might be manifest that they all are not of us.

²⁶ I have written this to you concerning those who would lead you astray.

⁹ Whoever is a child of God cannot go on sinning, because his seed is abiding in him; and he cannot go on sinning because he is a child of God.

¹⁶ By this we learn to know love, because he laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

¹ Do not believe every spirit, beloved, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God; for many false prophets are gone out into the world.

⁴ For whoever is a child of God is overcoming the world; and our faith is the victory that has overcome the world. ⁵ And who it the one that is overcoming the world if not the man who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

¹⁹ We know that we are of God, and the whole world is lying in the Evil One. ²⁰ And we know that the Son of God is come, and has granted us and understanding, so that we may come to know him who is true. And we are in him who is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and life eternal.

³ Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us from God the Father, and from Jesus Christ the Father's Son, in truth and love.

⁷ I say this because many deceivers are gone forth into the world, those who deny the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.

¹⁰ If any one come to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house, nor give him any greeting.

¹ Jude, a slave of Jesus Christ, and a brother of James. To those who are in God, the Father beloved, kept for Jesus Christ, and called.

⁴ For certain men have crept in stealthily—men predestined in ancient prophecies for this condemnation—impious ones! They pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness, and deny Jesus Christ, our sole Master and Lord.

²⁵ to the only God, our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be ascribed glory, majesty, might, and authority, as it was before time began, is now, and ever shall be to all the ages. Amen.

⁵ and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has loosed us from our sins in his own blood;

¹⁸ I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore; and hold the keys of death and of Hades.

² I know your works and your toil and stedfastness, and that you cannot endure evil men, and that you tested those who called themselves apostles, though they are not, and how you found them false.

⁶ But this you have, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I hate.

⁸ And unto the angel of the Church in Smyrna, write. These are the words of the First and the Last, he who died and has returned to life.

¹⁴ But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat food offered to idols, and to practise immorality. ¹⁵ So you have also some who hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans.

²⁰ But I have this against you, that you are tolerating that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she is teaching and leading my slaves astray, leading them to practise immorality, and to eat food which has been sacrificed to idols.

⁹ And whenever the Living Creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him who sits on the throne, to Him who lives forever and ever, ¹⁰ the four and twenty Elders fall down before Him who sits on the throne, and worship Him who lives forever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying. ¹¹ "Worthy art thou, our Lord and our God, To receive the glory and the honor and the power; For thou didst create all things, And because of thy will they came into being And were created."

⁹ And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy art thou to take the book And to open its seals; For thou wast slain and didst ransom for God Men out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation;

¹² singing aloud, "Worthy is the Lamb who has been slain, To receive power and riches and wisdom And might and honor and glory and blessing."

⁹ After this I looked, and behold a great multitude, whom no man could number, out of every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands;

¹² and crying, "Even so! The blessing and the glory and the wisdom And the thanksgiving and the honor and the power and the might Be to our God forever and ever. Amen."

⁹ Now the great dragon was thrown down—that old Serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

¹⁴ And he deceives those who dwell on the earth, because of the miracles, which he is permitted to perform in the sight of the beast. He tells those who live on the earth to make an image to the beast who had the sword-stroke, yet lived.

⁷ And he cried with a loud voice. "Fear God and give him glory, Because the hour of his judgment is come. And worship Him who made the heavens and the earth And the sea and springs of waters."

²⁰ And the beast was seized, and with him the false prophet who performed miracles in his presence to deceive those who had received the brand of the beast, and those who worshiped his image. The two were thrown alive into the lake of fire, blazing with brimstone.

³ and flung him into the bottomless pit, and shut and sealed it over him, so that he should seduce the nations no more, until the thousand years were completed. After that it is necessary to loose him for a little while.

¹⁸ I testify to every man who hears the words of the prophecy of this book. If any man shall add to them, God will add to him the plagues which are written in this book; ¹⁹ and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the Tree of Life, and in the Holy City, about which this book is written.

²¹ The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with the saints!